Upon hearing Zhou Peng translate the contents of Jung's diary, the monkey impatiently interrupted him: "Hey, we came here to find Hu Shahu's tomb, not to help these invaders collect their remains. Besides, there are Japanese devils here, why should we care about them?"

"No, this diary is still useful. We need to find out why these soldiers were at Hushahu's tomb and whether they excavated it."

I interrupted the monkey and said to Zhou Peng, "Take a close look at the contents of the diary. Skip all the parts about private life, tactics, and strategies, and go straight to the part about their arrival at this mountain."

Zhou Peng nodded and began to translate the contents for us, revealing a past event.

By early 1941, Hitler already had the intention to attack the Soviet Union and had made his battle plan well in advance.

Germany's plan at the time was to conquer Poland and then launch a three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union from the north, central and southern. In case of any unforeseen circumstances, they also specially deployed an elite force to carry out sabotage, assassination and other missions deep behind enemy lines.

This special forces unit was the team Jung belonged to.

This team set off several months in advance, with the purpose of providing military guidance, and went to Japanese-colonized Korea in batches. Under the arrangement of the Japanese, they also secretly went to the Mongolian region.

It is worth mentioning that Outer Mongolia was not yet independent at the time and belonged to China. As for whether the National Revolutionary Army was aware of this military movement, Jung's diary did not mention it.

After Operation Barbarossa began, the German army, relying on blitzkrieg tactics and local superior forces, advanced rapidly into the Soviet Union, advancing more than 600 kilometers in just a few dozen days.

A few months later, Jung's unit also received orders to choose a covert route from the north, secretly infiltrate the Soviet Union, and go deep into the interior to await further instructions.

This special forces unit has a total of 3,000 people, which are divided into 10 teams. Jung is the commander of one of the teams.

In order to achieve victory, the German army also requested that its ally, the Japanese Kwantung Army, move north from China to attack the Soviet Union from both sides. However, Japan had already been terrified by the Soviet Union in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol and could not afford to offend Germany, so it could only send a thousand men as a perfunctory gesture.

At that time, Jung, as the squad leader, led 300 German soldiers and 100 Japanese Kwantung Army soldiers into the Far East. However, although it was still late autumn, the climate in the Far East was already very harsh. Even their tanks and armored vehicles were stranded because the engine oil could not withstand the low temperature.

Even worse, in those continuous mountain ranges, the telegraph machine was completely unable to contact the outside world.

In this way, Jung's squad became an isolated force cut off from the main force.

Even worse, their supplies were running low.

In mid-October, the Far East was blanketed in heavy snow, so much so that not even a trace of animals could be seen. Four hundred Axis soldiers were reduced to forty or fifty men in just one week due to the cold and injuries.

Seeing that the number of people in the team was gradually decreasing, Jung decided to abandon the mission and prioritize survival, given that he had lost his way.

In this way, more than 300 remaining soldiers turned into devils, burning, killing, looting and plundering Soviet villages in the mountains, and capturing prisoners to build fortifications for them in the mountains.

According to Jung's account, they carried out five massacres of villages in just three months, killing thousands of people.

By the fifth month after they entered the mountains, they had captured more than 2,000 prisoners and more than 500 comfort women, the youngest of whom was only seven years old.

In Jung's own words, he felt that he was leading not a group of soldiers, but rather a group of devils. He even considered suicide several times when he saw photos of his wife and daughters.

A few months later, while they were looting down the mountain, they heard that the Soviet Red Army had repelled the German offensive and was preparing to send troops to the Far East to wipe out their small groups of troops. Many of the other troops that had been separated from them had already been annihilated.

This terrified Jung, who then ordered his soldiers to continue their march into the mountains and capture more prisoners, forcing them to work and using them as bargaining chips in negotiations should they be surrounded.

While searching for new fortifications, they discovered a cluster of buildings hidden in the mountains and chose it as their base. Jung also found a large number of swords and armor in the buildings, suspecting it was a hideout for Soviet militia, but they did not find any enemies.

Later, Jung ordered the destruction of the useless buildings and statues and had the prisoners build wooden fortifications.

He thought he could get through the winter, but an even harsher test was about to begin.

After a heavy snowfall, the troops got lost. The snow covered all traces, and they wandered around for more than ten days, but they kept going in circles.

The rations for several thousand people were no small amount. In order to prioritize the supply of his own people, Jung began to reduce the rations for prisoners and suppressed several uprisings.

Later, when the food ran out, they started eating people, and all the prisoners brought up the mountain became their food.

A plague begins to spread among the population, and Jung discovers that his former comrades have all gone mad, and the prisoners are also showing signs of resistance.

Jung believed himself to be of pure Germanic blood and that the plague must have been brought by the filthy Soviet peasants. To prevent further chaos, he tricked all the prisoners into coming outside the square under the pretext of releasing them, and then cleared them out with machine gun fire.

Over the next few days, soldiers died one by one, and some even attacked their comrades in a frenzy. They shot these people and threw their bodies out.

Jung was on the verge of a mental breakdown. With the last few conscious officers by his side, he threw several poison gas bombs into the room while the others were asleep, and then hanged himself.

Zhou Peng flipped through his diary: "That's about all the stories I wrote up there. The rest is blank."

After hearing the story, the monkey couldn't help but curse, "Damn it! No wonder the vegetation outside is so lush. Underneath those plants are thousands of corpses buried. With so much fertilizer, how can the plants grow so slowly?"

"Jung wrote in his diary that they found a large number of armors and swords here. I think that could not possibly be the equipment of the Soviet militia. It is more like a place where funerary objects are stored in the above-ground buildings of the mausoleum! Hu Shahu was a high-ranking official who held military power during his lifetime. It is reasonable for him to have some funerary objects placed here!"

Song Laosan paused for a moment: "I just don't know if the buildings that Jung ordered to be blown up contained the rammed earth dome that Xiao Duan mentioned. As for why those people went mad, I think it's probably a prion. Legend has it that cannibalism can lead to infection with this virus. It's a kind of genetic lock from the Creator, and patients will become irrational madmen, tearing everything apart like zombies in movies! If that's true, then it's a case of evil being punished!"

"In that case, those savages could very well have been prisoners captured and taken into the mountains back then, or perhaps survivors who managed to escape! They lost their minds due to prions or poison gas, leaving only their survival instincts. Didn't the diary say that they captured comfort women? That makes sense! Moreover, these foreigners have a lot of body hair, and they've lived in the forest for generations, so atavism is also possible."

The monkey scratched his head: "If that's really the case, back then, when the hunters in Sasha Village said they saw Mongol cavalry, could it be that these savages were wearing the armor described in Jung's diary?"

“These things are not important. According to Jung’s records, they did not discover that this was an ancient tomb. They only destroyed the above-ground structures, and the underground should not have been affected.”

I didn't want to see the skeletons all over the ground, so I found a rusty military dagger to use as a two-world sword and took the lead towards the back door of the ancestral hall: "Everyone, continue to explore forward and search for the treasure peak."